Commercial Flooring in Lombard, IL

Where these floors work

These floors go into trading units and the rooms behind them, and the two want opposite things. A shop floor takes trolley wheels, grit walked in off the street and a mop every night, and it has to look presentable while doing it. A showroom is judged on appearance first, so the sheen and the flatness matter more than the depth of the build. A stockroom is the reverse: nobody sees it, but it takes pallet trucks, dropped stock and spills, and it has to survive that without turning into a cleaning job.

Food and drink spaces are their own case. A commercial kitchen or a servery needs grip underfoot where water and grease reach the floor, coving where the floor meets the wall so there is no joint to clean out, and a surface that takes hot water and detergent every day. An office or a reception area wants close to the opposite: a smooth, quiet floor that looks deliberate and needs almost nothing doing to it.

What they have in common is that one continuous surface can serve all of them. There are no grout lines to scrub, no vinyl seam to lift at a doorway and no tile to source and match when a corner goes, which is what lets a single floor run through a unit doing several different jobs.

The four floors we lay, and which one suits the unit

Epoxy flake is the usual choice where the public walks. Colored chips are broadcast into the base coat and locked under a topcoat, which gives a lightly textured surface that hides everyday marking between cleans and keeps its grip when the floor is wet.

Solid color is the plain, uniform floor. One color across the whole slab with nothing in it to catch the eye, which suits back-of-house, stockrooms and stores where the floor is there to work rather than to be looked at. It is also the most straightforward of the four to mark out with walkways or bay lines.

Metallic epoxy is the decorative pour. Pigment is moved through a clear resin while it cures, so the color travels in swirls and pools and no two floors finish alike. It suits a space meant to be noticed, a showroom or a customer-facing area, and it is an indoor finish only.

Grind and seal is the lower-build option, and the only one of the four that is not a coating. Rather than laying a new surface over the slab, the concrete is ground back and sealed, so the finished floor is the building's own surface under a hard topcoat. It suits a unit going for a plainer, more industrial look. Slip resistance can be broadcast into the topcoat on any of the four, specified by area, because the texture that earns its place at a threshold is a nuisance across a sales floor.

The kind of units we work in around Lombard

We cover Lombard and the neighboring DuPage suburbs from our shop in Roselle, close enough that a survey does not need booking a week ahead. The units here run from small storefronts through to warehouse and business-park space, and those two get judged differently: one on how it looks from the door, the other on whether a pallet truck can cross it all day without finding a joint. The floor that suits each is not the same floor, which is why we look at the slab and the use before quoting either.

Get your Lombard unit surveyed and priced

We work throughout Lombard and the neighboring DuPage suburbs from our shop in Roselle, with our own crew rather than subcontracted labor. The survey is free and there is nothing to commit to at the end of it. Bring us in before you have settled on a specification and you will get a zoned quote, samples down on your own floor, and a straight answer on which areas need spending on and which do not. If the unit is trading, tell us the hours that matter and we will build the schedule around them. Call (630) 206-5602 or email info@evolveconcretecoating.com and we will get a visit booked. We answer Monday to Sunday, 9 AM to 6 PM.